Ashburnham Drive Brighton

40 addresses across 1 postcode (BN1), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4400758.

  • Sales: 44 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £421,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (C: 14, D: 10, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Moulsecoomb, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 220 m away, and Moulsecoomb Wild Park (62 hectares) is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 68 to 83 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Carden Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£421,250£415,000£427,500
20242£431,000£382,000£480,000
20231£490,000£490,000£490,000
20221£390,000£390,000£390,000
20211£395,000£395,000£395,000
20192£325,000£300,000£350,000
20182£308,750£290,000£327,500
20161£346,000£346,000£346,000
20151£260,000£260,000£260,000
20142£267,500£260,000£275,000
20132£229,000£228,000£230,000
20121£280,000£280,000£280,000
Most recent sales (44)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Jun 202618 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£427,500
14 Jan 202622 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£415,000
1 Aug 202530 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£505,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jan 202538 BN1 9AXOther£510,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 20245 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£480,000
7 Feb 202414 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£382,000
12 Jan 20235 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£490,000
9 Aug 202218 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£390,000
12 Nov 202119 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£395,000
13 Sep 201933 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£350,000
19 Jul 201931 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£300,000
12 Oct 201827 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£327,500
22 Mar 201816 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£290,000
4 Nov 201617 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£346,000
17 Aug 201630 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Dec 20156 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£260,000
22 Apr 20141 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£275,000
14 Mar 201437 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£260,000
28 May 201312 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£230,000
28 Jan 20138 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£228,000
25 Oct 201226 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£280,000
18 Nov 20095 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£195,000
12 Jun 200820 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£133,333
20 Dec 200727 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£250,000
10 Aug 20078 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£230,000
20 Feb 200737 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£217,500
21 Dec 200635 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£227,500
21 May 200428 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£180,000
18 Jul 20038 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£160,000
7 Jul 20033 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£154,950
20 Jun 200330 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£150,000
30 Aug 200223 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£131,000
11 Feb 20024 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£127,000
14 Dec 200130 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£115,000
20 Dec 200026 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£141,000
8 Sep 200027 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£106,000
20 Oct 199938 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£74,500
6 Aug 199927 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£40,000
24 Feb 19994 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£84,000
11 Jun 199821 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£58,000
17 Apr 199824 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£75,000
23 Jun 199724 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£58,000
6 Nov 199637 BN1 9AXSemi-detached£55,995
6 Nov 199634 BN1 9AXTerraced£47,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (24); House, end-terrace (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (20); 1930-1949 (4); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (4); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Brighton and Hove in 2026-27: Band D £2,581 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,720£2,007£2,294£2,581£3,154£3,727£4,301£5,161

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (53% of about 1,130 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 5 September 2026 to 7 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 5 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 40 addresses are between 68 m and 83 m above sea level (75 m on average); the ground rises about 15 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BN1 9AX100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsMoulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Falmer 1.4 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
London Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Twyford Road Coldean150 m
Bus or coach stationSussex House University of Sussex1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal14.1 km (8.8 miles)
Car parksUpper Moat Lodge Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW32.5 km (20 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Carden Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest University Pharmacy180 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery720 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBrighton General Hospital3.3 km (2 miles)
Police stationBrighton Crowhurst Road Police Station1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coldean Convenience Store Cashzone510 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,700 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Moulsecoomb Wild Park 62 ha370 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,860 m²260 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coldean Allotments 6,320 m²340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 63 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cross dyke in Great Wood, 500m south west of Stanmer House, a scheduled monument, 770 m (0.5 miles) north. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cross dyke in Great Wood, 500m south west of Stanmer HouseScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) north
Bowl barrow in Great WoodScheduled monument950 m (0.6 miles) north
Hillfort, the possible remains of a Romano-Celtic temple and a group of three bowl barrows at HollingburyScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Stanmer ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Woodvale CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Coldean WoodWood620 m (0.4 miles) east
Coldean BeltWood910 m (0.6 miles) east
Great WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) north
Hollingbury CastleHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Park BottomValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Lot's PondLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 553940

1 of the street's 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Brighton and Hove: see them on the Brighton and Hove page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Coldean Primary SchoolPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moulsecoomb Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Carden Nursery and Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Brighton Aldridge Community AcademySecondary11–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hertford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
St Mary Magdalene Church Hall BN1 9GEOther catering premises200 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Coldean Community Corner BN1 9EDRetailers - other240 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
New Larchwood - Dining Room And Barista And Baker Cafe BN1 9EZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good27 May 2025
Premier Coldean Food And Wine BN1 9EDRetailers - other380 m5 Very good27 Jul 2024
Team Care Group BN1 9ETHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Vehicle crime4
Public order3
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs3
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Monk Close (8); On or near Woodview Close (6); On or near Reeves Hill (3); On or near Ingham Drive (3); On or near Ashburnham Close (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 327 residents in 112 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3540
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • BN1 9AX: 40 addresses of 43 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ashburnham Close · Twyford Road · Reeves Hill · Nanson Road · The Byway · Monk Close · The Meads · Ingham Drive · Talbot Crescent · Walton Bank · Woodview Close · Arlington Crescent

All the streets in BN1 and across Brighton and Hove.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.